Criticism & Theory
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Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy
$19.95 Read moreEssential essays on art in our current era from one of the most important art critics writing today.
- Author: Davis, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1642594628
- Language: English
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Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
$40.00 Add to cartA deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day
Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a dec- Author: Gurstein, Rochelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0300215487
- Language: English
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Failed Images: Photography and Its Counter-Practices
$33.95 Read moreFailed Images approaches photography in terms of its divergence from the reality it would claim to show. How does the photograph transform that which exists before the camera? A variety of factors inf
- Author: Van Alphen, Ernst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 9492095459
- Language: English
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Plan and Play, Play and Plan: Defining Your Art Practice
$27.95 Read moreA guidebook for artists and those aspiring to be artists
“Visual artist” is a term with manifold variations and meanings. But how, as an artist (or designer, photographer or other “independent creator”
- Author: Schrofer, Janwillem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 9492095408
- Language: English
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What Artists Do
$18.00 Read moreArtists do a number of things that are very useful. In this deceptively modest book, some of these things are described. Seminal works by artists Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Richard Serra, Christo & Je… [more below]
- Author: Koren, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0981484662
- Language: English
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Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped the Museum of Modern Art
$45.00 Add to cartProfiles of fourteen women who transformed the country’s foremost modern art museum in its fledgling years
Founded in 1929, the Museum of Modern Art owes much of its early success to a number of remark
- Author: Silver-Kohn, Romy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1633450791
- Language: English
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On Creating Things Aesthetic
$16.00 Add to cartThis is a
pared-down, demystified overview of the mental operations involved with
creating things aesthetic, i.e., art, design, and the like. It is a
disarmingly clearheaded and unsentimental look at the… [more below]- Author: Koren, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1734914319
- Language: English
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Van Gogh and the End of Nature
$45.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh’s profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world today
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is most oft- Author: Lobel, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 030027436X
- Language: English
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Art, Annotated: The World’s 500 Greatest Paintings Explained
$50.00 Add to cartA stunning art gallery in a book, art, annotated spans more than 3,000 years of paintings, sculptures, and prints.
Combining reproductions of each work of art with precise annotations and visual analy- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0593844092
- Language: English
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Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
$26.95 Add to cartHow technology and the politics of attention changed the way we look at art
The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance has changed. How are we expectedto engage with today’s diverse practi- Author: Bishop, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292885
- Language: English
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Artful
$20.00 Read moreAli Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives
In February 2012, the novelist Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on E- Author: Smith, Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593687582
- Language: English
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Oh, to Be a Painter!
$15.00 Read moreThe twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.
Despite wide interest- Series: Ekphrasis
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1644230585
- Language: English
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Hi-Fructose Collected Edition Volume 1: Under the Counter Culture
$29.95 Add to cartHi-Fructose Collected Edition Volume 1 is now in paperback! A deluxe softcover reprint of a “best-of-Hi-Fructose” selection from the first four hard-to-find volumes of Hi-Fructose in one beautiful 250… [more below]
- Series: Hi-Fructose Collected Edition #1
- Author: Attaboy, Attaboy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0867198869
- Language: English
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
$14.95 Read moreArtists and thinkers alike will treasure this special hardcover edition of one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. A pioneering work in spiritual revolution and the movement … [more below]
- Author: Kandinsky, Wassily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0486847535
- Language: English
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A Beautiful Anarchy: When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created
$19.95 Add to cartA Beautiful Anarchy is a vulnerable, honest, and insightful book about the human longing to create, whether you’re creating a family, a business, a book, or a photograph. Your greatest creation can be
- Author: Duchemin, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 02 2016
- ISBN10: 168198234X
- Language: English
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Art and Solidarity Reader: Radical Actions, Politics and Friendships
$35.00 Read moreCase studies on strategies for survival and solidarity beyond the art industry, from the Zapatistas to FESTAC ’77
Looking beyond East/West and North/South divisions, the Art and Solidarity Reader asks:
- Author: Garcia-Anton, Katya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: November 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 9493246027
- Language: English
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Drunken Silenus
$19.00 Add to cartThe Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down–an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, wit… [more below]
- Series: Three Paintings Trilogy
- Author: Meis, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: April 09 2020
- ISBN10: 163982054X
- Language: English
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Some Styles of Masculinity
$19.95 Read moreAn intimate, urgent and riotous account of masculinity, whiteness, queerness and belief in America
In winter 2018, Gregg Bordowitz performed a three-part lecture series at the New Museum as part of Tri
- Author: Bordowitz, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0997852453
- Language: English
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because art: Commentary, Critique, & Conversation
$20.00 Add to cartEssays, speeches, and conversations by artist, arts administrator, and Vermont state legislator, John R. Killacky.
Highlights include:
- Cultural, social, and political commentary on leadership, disabil
- Author: Killacky, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1949066851
- Language: English
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Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice
$28.95 Add to cartIn-depth discussions on bootlegging and its myriad definitions in the creative world
Over the last few decades, the term “bootlegging”–a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers–
- Author: Schwartz, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9493246299
- Language: English
